Abstract: A character display apparatus comprises at least a memory for storing a character code designating a desirable character and attribute data designating an attribute thereof as one pair of data; a first character generator for pre-storing font data corresponding to English characters and figures; a second character generator for pre-storing font data corresponding to Chinese characters; a judgment portion and a control portion. The judgment portion judges whether one character is designated by one character code or two or more character codes which are read from the memory in accordance with scanning of a display screen. Based on the judgment result of this judgment portion, character reading operation of the control portion is controlled.